WAY back before the first war A a “chair” was provided for in the ‘Organization of OAS), embrac- the Western Canada American States’ ( ing all countries i hemisphere. This “chair” remained unoc- cupied, due mainly to U.S. policies, which, at that time regarded Can- ada as a colonial appendage of British imperialism and therefore not too important in the adjust- ment of South American affairs. n Then came the Statute of West- minster (1931) and a new status of independence for Canada. But even with this new stature there was no apparent need (on the part of U.S. imperialism) to urge any active Canadian membership in OAS. Thus the “chair” remained empty. Now 30 years later U.S. im- perialism has got itself properly hated and despised by the people of Latin America. U.S. “prestige” has hit an all-time low in all Latin Dollars - or IN or lose, the game’s the W thing. That’s the spirit of the Olympics which bring the na- tions of the world together in one arena of friendly competitive sports. Even in this year’s Sum- mer Clympics in Rome, East and West Germany are represented by one sports team. That alone is a grand achievement in a_ nation where the virus of cold war is assiduously cultivated by Wash- ington and Benn. Last week British newspapers featured two ways of participating in Olympic games. One was by a gang of U.S. cold- war political hoodlums, well sup- plied with Pentagon dollars, and assigned the job of trying to bribe atheletes from the Socialist coun- tries into ‘going over’ to the so- ealied “free” West. The other was the welcome and warm wishes for ‘good luck in Rome’ by Soviet atheletes to all national groups, including Ameri- can atheletes, coupled with an in- Pacific Tribune Editor —- TOM McEWEN Associate Edivor — MAURICE RUSH Business Mgr. — OXANA BIGELOW Published weekly at Room & — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone MUtual 5-5288 Printed in a Union Shop Subscription Rates: One Year: $4.00 Six Months: $2.25 Sanadian and Commonwealth Dne year. Australia, United States and countries (except Australia): $4.00 all other countries: $5.00 one year. t empty O American countries. Nixon’s tour last summer under-scored that. Nor does U.S. racist segregationist policies against its Negro citizens endear itself to Latin Americans. On top of that there is the Cuban revolution of Fidel Castro which U.S. imperialism has done its best to strangle, but all to no avail. Hence the hectic hints and prop- aganda now emanating from the Pentagon that ‘Canada should take her place in the OAS’ and fill that long-vacant chair, and the ready responses from Messrs Diefen- baker and Green that such hints will soon be given “concrete ex- pression.” In short, Canada’s membership in OAS is now badly needed to per- form a dubious service; that of an official Charley McCarthy for U.S. imperialism in the domination and exploitation of Latin America. A stooge role, in which Canada’s Liberal and Tory McCarthys are invited to pull U.S. chestnuts out of its Latin American fire. the game? vitation to visit the Soviet Union and compete in next year’s Soviet sport events. These divergent attitudes show who is injecting coldwar politics into sports. AS chair “Province’ censorship HEN the B.C. election date W was announced The Prov- ince donned its ‘democratic’ halo and pledged “to report throughout this campaign on what parties and candidates are saying and doing, without bias or favor to any party, candidate or cause.” (Aug. 26 edi- tion.) When the Communist Party asked that its platform be pub- lihsed in The Province as were the platforms of all other parties in the campaign, The Province re- plied with a splenetic “no,” well larded with McCarthyite slanders and falsehood. Taking upon herself the role of provincial censor, judge and jury, the Old Lady of Cambie Street proceeded to lecture (editorial- wise) what and who the people of B.C. should read and vote for. This the crotchetty old crone calls “freedom of the press.” The Communist Party, says The Province, is “a subversive conspir- acy dedicated to the overthrow of the existing economic and social order” and therefore not to be mentioned in its “free press” col- umns, except by slanderous and baseless allegations. In the Province dictum the— Communist Party “is not a politi- cal party in the same sense as are the Social Credit, CCF, Conserva- tive and Liberal parties.” Here the Old Lady accidently stumbles + onto a kernel of truth, a rare find in her case. The Communists differ in that they fight consistently for peace, for jobs, and for security for Can- ada. They oppose giveaways of the people’s resources to grasping monopoly. They fight and work for an independent sovereign Canada, free from the economic, political and military domination of U.S. imperialism; prime essen- tials for the welibeing and secur ity of the Canadian people, whether in B.C. or elsewhere. A truly free press would feature these distinctive differences, thus leaving the people to judge for themselves. But The Province, im its distortion of “press freedom” prefers to smother them with McCarthyite editorial and adver- tising bilge. Tom McEwen HILE things are warming up W on the hustings it is still too early to do any forecasting of Sep- tember 12 election results. Always topnotch “promisers” the Socreds are promising to giveaway just about everything that isn’t nailed down. “And,” they say, “if you don’t believe it, just look at the record of eight great years.” That’s our advice to the voters too, just “Jook at it, but good. Meantime the Tories with Deane Finlayson are “optimistic,” as are the Liberals with Ray Perrault. They both have that well-shaven feeling of ‘‘optimism” in the race to out-promise the Socreds. One thing is sure, the B.C. score- board on pre-election “promising” looks as though it might hit an all-time high. “Promises” of what the political hucksters of capital- ism will do “if elected” come thick- er than fleas on a mangy dog. The CCF which aims-to rejuven- ate capitalism with a CCF face-lift and massage, (which CCF national eam a president David Lewis describes as “the new socialism’’) came up with a couple of dillies recently. Paddy Neale, CCF-BCFL candi- date in Vancouver-Burrard, unruf- fled by the old adage about not counting chickens until they are hatched, told Vancouver Labor Council delegates that, ‘‘if elected”’ he will split his MLA stipend three ways: one third to the CCF, one-third to the VLC, and of course, one-third for himself. Too bad such generosity is only in evi- dence when votes are needed. In a later burst of election ex- huberance, Paddy came up with the idea of “socialized” funerals; that is, to bring the undertaker busi- hess under public management, thus ending what is widely re- garded as a very profitable racket in the conduct of our final dis- posal to parts unknown. (It may be recalled that when the Liberals were in power in Ottawa “Uncle” Louis St.-Laurent stock- piled a lot of coffins at $5.00 per, as part of Liberal “civil defence planning). Paddy of course has a point, but the key central issue in this elec- tion, if properly presented in terms of peace and survival from nuclear devastation, is how to win all-in unity to avoid funerals, rather than root for “socialized” ones. Even St. the parties of Big Business are palr- fight for disarmament and peace a5 paramount Laurent’s bargain-basement boxes held no attraction for peace-loving Canadians. Then we had another hardy per- ennial “promise” just recently. A bit shop-worn to be sure, but still the principle stock-in-trade argu- ment of rightwing social democracy in defense of its capitalist ‘“purity” and anti-unity policies. It seems that up the Interior way, Socred’s Elmer Gantry .Gaglardi took timeout im his ‘promising’ marathon. to describe the CCF as the “CCF-Communist party.” ‘Most un-Christian” shrilled CCF candidate Mrs. Lois Haggen (Grand Forks - Greenwood). ‘‘Why, Mr. Gaglardi knows very well that the CCF are the biggest enemies of Communism,” to which CCF pro- vincial leader Bob ~~ Strachan re- sponded with a fervent “Amen.” With the sole exception of the 19 Communist® candidates there is one promise neither the CCF nor ticularly strong on: viz, to put the and essential to all else. On this vital subject most of these aspiring office seekers are either timidly reticent—or totally dumb; a fact which reduces most of their pre-election promising t® little more than electioneering gib- berish. ee September 2, 1960—-PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pasé ;